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From dawn to dusk these days, Bush has taken the dewy path along the Rose Garden and wondered about his fate. Not in despondency -- that is not his nature -- but in a detached, curious and wary way. Once he looked up after long hours of deliberation and said, "The decisions are getting tougher." So true. No good answers present themselves. He chooses now from the best of the bad, which is the usual way in government. Last Thursday his crisis pace reached its peak, as shown in these remarkable pictures...
Walking through the gathering dusk, he marveled at the world that had plagued him for the preceding twelve hours. Then he suddenly brightened. "Well," he said, "I think I'll call up George Plimpton and ask him down to play some horseshoes...
...majority of young American Samoans leave the island within a year of graduation, often to return disenchanted with both the mainland and their island homeland. And alcoholism is a perennial concern in a country where beer sometimes seems as much in abundance as water. In the cricket-chattering dusk, John Kneubuhl, a grand old man of the island, who went from here to Yale and then to a screenwriting career in Hollywood, recalls how he used to play hide-and-seek in the ghost-filled dark as a boy. Now, he says, traditions are fading. "It's like a volcano...
Bush and Dukakis both appeared on morning television programs while embarking on another dawn-to-dusk dash through key battleground states...
Every day last year, at dusk and in the morning, I watched, from a kitchen window in Scotland, the flash of the May Isle Lighthouse, eight miles out in the North Sea. On that island there are still keepers, but most lighthouse have now been automated. The buildings that the keepers and their families used to live in, when they haven't been destroyed outright, are mostly left empty, unprotected from vandals, storms and decay...